I’m Dennis
Finnan, host and speaker on the World, the Word & You! Broadcast and in a
moment we’ll talk about the supposed changing world climate and some startling
findings…
…Are you ready
for a new way of life in what might be called a “waterworld?”
Environmentalists today are warning again that “global warming” to an increase
of “greenhouse gases” is raising temperatures of the earth and its seas, and
that a possible polar meltdown is a distinct possibility in the coming future.
“Green” environmentalist groups such as “Friends of the Earth,” “Greenpeace,”
the “World Wildlife Fund” and “Earth First,” are using their influence to
bring fear to persuade people that an environmental disaster of historic
proportions is just around the corner. Such environmentalist thinking is now
widely accepted in the West. However, many scientists argue that what the
Greens say about global warming and earth pollution is wrong. Professor
Wilfred Beckerman, a former member of the Royal Commission on Environmental
Pollution, was himself an enthusiastic environmentalist until he started
examining the scientific facts. He told “Against Nature:”
"Within a few months of looking at the statistical data, [Global
warming] I realized that most of my concerns about the environment were based
on false information and scare stories."
You see,
environmentalists are again claiming that there is rising danger of seeing the
melting of our polar ice caps due to Global Warming and new findings deep down
in Antarctica.
Recently, I
caught a news broadcast where a reporter stated, changes in the Pacific Ocean
are making it more likely that warmer weather will begin to cook the globe.
Researchers said the pattern, prevalent this past year that brought us 14
hurricanes in the east, may last for another 20-30 years. Coupled with this,
some see the beginning of the possible melting of the polar ice caps, which
would raise sea water levels significantly over time, changing the coastlines
of the world!
Prior to such a
catastrophic possible event, these experts say, the now rising Pacific sea
temperatures will create at the least, a different set of winter and summer
weather conditions that may be new extremes.
Meanwhile down
below, scientist in the Antarctica have found some startling new finds that
some say may be the preparation for a new era of life as we know it. What did
they find, and what implications can it mean for us around the world? Well
after another musical pause, I'll answer that for you…
…Some years ago,
America's film capital known as "Hollywood," produced a couple of motion
pictures called "Waterworld," and “The Day After Tomorrow.” In these science
fiction films, Hollywood tried to show that earth was completely changed due
to ruination by global warming. The first, “Waterworld,” showed the earth was
completely covered with water as all the polar ice caps melted. The second a
more recent release “The Day After Tomorrow,” showed the world experienced a
new ice age due to the fact that global warming altered ocean currents that
catastrophically triggered a new Ice Age, causing bizarre and highly
destructive weather to level major cites worldwide. However regardless, the
idea of the melting of the polar icecaps has intrigued modern man for decades
as we all hear of the possible Global Warming that may be happening to our
world at this time due to the increase of carbon dioxide gases produced by the
burning of fossil fuels.
Some time ago, I
read an article that reported that down under in Antarctica; scientist had
found some startling evidence that may predict these science fictions films
becoming a reality, as Antarctica may be preparing for "another" meltdown! Now
what would this mean? Well for starters, a GREAT WORLDWIDE FLOOD would occur
if the Antarctic Ice Cap were to melt completely. If it did so, the level of
the oceans would rise by as much as 200 feet! This would dramatically alter
the shape and coastlines of the world. For the U.S., this means the entire
eastern coastline would be submerged. Florida and vast parts of the
southeastern states would simply disappear. In fact, Memphis Tennessee would
become a deep sea port!
So then are we
headed for a real "waterworld," or new Ice Age? Should we begin building our
homes on mountain tops, or moving to the equator? Well scientists are sharply
divided on this issue of greenhouse gases dangerously warming the globe, but
nonetheless, new findings have many environmentalists worried.
You see, down at
McMurdo Bay in Antarctica, just 300 miles from the South Pole, is a vast polar
desert larger than the size of all Europe. There, an ice sheet covers nearly
all Antarctica almost three miles thick averaging heights of 7000 to 8000 feet
high! In that wasteland of ice, lies Camp Shackleton, where many scientists
and sophisticated equipment are there to study and measure the atmosphere and
geology of the region. During these studies over the years, the men and women
working there have divided into two camps of believers. One is called the
"Dynamists" and the other is called the "Stablists." Each has been working
there for over 20 years. What they've found, according to each group, is
remarkable.
Not long ago at
the end of the 20th century, the "Dynamists" working in the nearby Dominion
Mountain range unearthed an unusual finding. They found deep in the ice,
moss-like plants and sea shells, which now they claim is sure evidence of a
once temperate environment not long ago, "evolutionarily speaking." David
Harwood of the University of Nebraska was one the men who made the startling
find. However, actually this all goes back to 1983 when Peter Webb, a
geologist and Harwood, together, performed a laboratory analysis of glacial
sediment from the Trans-Antarctic Mountains. What they found was astonishing:
The sediment, known as the Sirius Group, contained "diatoms," or marine
microfossils, that they questionably dated as about three million years old.
Together with
the latest findings and these earlier discoveries, these men who form the
"Dynamist" camp of explorers, say we are headed for a new age of the meltdown
of Antarctica!
Now remember,
Antarctica is almost twice the size of Australia, and contains 90% of the
world's ice and 70% of its fresh water. So even if a partial meltdown was to
occur, it could cause severe catastrophic global flooding, and weather
extremes.
Now all that
coupled with the “El Nino” and “La Nina” conditions in the Pacific which now
show the temperatures of ocean water rising -- could it mean a worldwide flood
is coming? Well, let me put this in perspective as we examine what God has to
say about such things.
First of all,
the findings of tropical like life-forms deep in the barren polar ice desert
of Antarctica should not be astounding for it simply affirms Christian
teaching and the biblical record found in the Book of Genesis that tells of a
world vastly different from today.
You see, in the
Bible we are told that the earth once sustained a catastrophic global flooding
that covered the entire surface of the earth of that day. We read in,
Gen 6:13 (NLT) "So God said to Noah, "I have
decided to destroy all living creatures, for the earth is filled with violence
because of them. Yes, I will wipe them all from the face of the earth!"
Gen 7:4 (NLT) "One week from today I will
begin forty days and forty nights of rain. And I will wipe from the earth all
the living things I have created.""
Gen 7:17-23 (NLT) "For forty days the floods
prevailed, covering the ground and lifting the boat [ark] high above the
earth. 18 As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the [ark]
floated safely on the surface. 19 Finally, the water covered even the highest
mountains on the earth, 20 standing more than twenty-two feet above the
highest peaks… 23 Every living thing on the earth was wiped out—people,
animals both large and small, and birds. They were all destroyed, and only
Noah was left alive, along with those who were with him in the [ark]."
This tragic and
factual account of history recorded in the Bible, and memory of the world's
people, reveals that long ago, some 6000 - 8000 years ago, our world suffered
a global catastrophe that annihilated the entire world of land creatures,
except those who entered the huge ark Noah built according to God's
instructions.
Now I know many
unbelievers laugh at this supposed "preposterous" story -- but think about it
my friend -- the Bible further reveals that the Pre-Noahic world was much
warmer than ours and had greater land masses coupled with a tropical like
climate all over the earth. There were no polar ice caps, and in the Arctic
and Antarctic regions, there obviously was abundant life living there.
Now, scientist
are finding that below the massive ice sheets, tropical like life-forms and
soil conditions existed long ago. This just confirms what the Bible tells us.
However, the
Antarctic scientists who are in the “Dynamist” camp, who believe in a coming
ice meltdown, also believe these soil samples, moss-like plants and seashells
existed some three million years ago. If so, they claim, climate changes as
we’re beginning to see, if they continue, could trigger another meltdown as
must have happened before, to allow such life forms to have previously existed
in the now polar desert.
At the least,
the Dynamists are saying that Antarctica's eastern ice sheet may not meltdown,
but the western ice sheet could, as a result of global warming, and just slip
off into the ocean! Of course, their three million year old dating is just
evolutionary assumptions, peppered with their own bias, but the fact remains,
could it be possible a worldwide flooding could occur with the partial
meltdown of Antarctica? Again, God’s Word answers!
After Noah and
his family step off the ark on dry ground when the global flood waters fully
receded, we are told:
Gen 8:20-22 (NLT) "Then Noah built an altar to
the LORD and sacrificed on it the animals and birds that had been approved for
that purpose. 21 And the LORD was pleased with the sacrifice and said to
himself, "I will never again curse the earth, destroying all living things,
even though people’s thoughts and actions are bent toward evil from childhood.
22 As long as the earth remains, there will be springtime and harvest, cold
and heat, winter and summer, day and night.""
Gen 9:11 (NLT) "I solemnly promise never to
send another flood to kill all living creatures and destroy the earth.""
Well friends,
there you have it, the Creator God who oversees and sustains the world and its
existence has promised that our world would never, ever again, see a global
flood of water! That means friends, the polar ice caps, regardless of what
some might predict, will NEVER meltdown and completely destroy the earth's
land surfaces. Of course, this doesn't mean our globe is damage proof. Man can
harm and injure the environment with careless abuse of the ecosystems and
natural resources, but massive, critical destruction will not happen nor
destroy all life.
However note
that, in the Bible we are told that there is coming a day when the world will
be destroyed as we know it today. We read about this in,
2 Pet 3:10-13 (NLT) "But the day of the Lord
will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a
terrible noise, and everything in them will disappear in fire, and the earth
and everything on it will be exposed to judgment. 11 Since everything around
us is going to melt away, what holy, godly lives you should be living! 12 You
should look forward to that day and hurry it along—the day when God will set
the heavens on fire and the elements will melt away in the flames. 13 But we
are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world
where everyone is right with God."
You see, the
Bible tells us God is the manager of His created universe. We are told that
Jesus Christ who is the Creator God of the Bible, it is He who "holds all
things together" in balance,
Col 1:16-18 (NLT) "Christ is the one through
whom God created everything in heaven and earth. He made the things we can see
and the things we can’t see—kings, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities.
Everything has been created through him and for him. 17 He existed before
everything else began, and he holds all creation together. 18 Christ is the
head of the church, which is his body. He is the first of all who will rise
from the dead, so he is first in everything."
Imagine that!
God says a day is coming when He will be the One, who destroys the world He
created, and it won't come by flooding again, rather by fire from Heaven
itself. Why will God do this? The answer is found in,
Jude 1:14-15 (NLT) "Now Enoch, who lived seven
generations after Adam, prophesied about these people. He said, "Look, the
Lord is coming with thousands of his holy ones. 15 He will bring the people of
the world to judgment. He will convict the ungodly of all the evil things they
have done in rebellion and of all the insults that godless sinners have spoken
against him.""
Yes, God who is
the great landlord of the universe and planet earth, has allowed human beings
to live here by His grace and mercy. God gave the terms in a contract called
the Bible. He says we can have this planet and live here free of charge, as
long as we follow His rules for life, living and relationship to Him as
Creator. But the fact is since the very first tenants, Adam and Eve, our
humanity has rejected God, and His terms of contract for living in his
universe.
As such, God's
decree of the "Curse" (Gen. 3:17-19), has fallen on our world and the universe
itself. This "Curse" is God's penalty for sin. Thus, every human being,
including our world, even the universe is decaying, dying and wearing out. The
very unalterable laws of science affirm this in what is called the LAWS OF
THERMODYNAMICS.
Yet this "bad
news," also has another side to the coin, a positive side! For GOOD NEWS comes
with it. We read in,
John 3:16-17 (NLT) ""For God so loved the
world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not
perish but have eternal life. 17 God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn it, but to save it."
The world God
sent Christ to save was not the planet earth, but the people who inhabit it!
Sadly, upon Christ's coming to earth, we are told the vast majority of
humanity rejected him. Even to this day they do too. In place of believing in
the God of Creation revealed in the Bible, mankind has fashioned its own gods,
and worships them. From the false religions of the world to the evolutionary
philosophies of universities, man has thumbed his nose at God, the great
landlord and Creator.
But one day
friend know this, God will step in and change all that. Only those who have
turned their lives and hearts over to Jesus Christ, and trusted Him alone to
save them from their sins by His substitutionary death on the cross will be
saved and given the joy of repopulating the universe for all eternity.
What does it
cost for you and me to be the recipient of this? The answer is NOTHING, but
your willingness to surrender your heart, mind, will and hope to love and
serve Jesus Christ.
Doing that, the
Bible promises, God saves you, seals you and sets you apart for the glorious
day when He comes again to RECLAIM His world for His people, and to evict the
ungodly for the day of their judgment.
Friend, right
now everyone has a choice. It matters not where you live in the world, how
rich or poor you are – Jesus Christ died for everyone, including you! If
you'll just pause where you are and look up and with spiritual eyes and see
the face of God in Jesus, you can be saved from your sins and marked out for a
new preserved life in God's eternity.
That friend is
the "GOOD NEWS" GOSPEL of Christianity. Yes, there is no cost to you, for
everything was bought and paid for by God through Christ. It matters not if
you are in the Dynamist or Stablist camps of explorers in Antarctica, God's in
control and there will be no global flood, or new ice age to again destroy the
earth. But mark this friend, a day is coming when God will root out and
destroy all those who have refused His tender call and rejected His free gift
of salvation through His Son's death on a cross. That is what is important. So
I ask, where do you stand? Are you an atheist, agnostic, evolutionist, or just
plain religious? Then today, right now, look up to Heaven and cry out to God
calling upon Jesus Christ to save you, for the Bible says,
Rom 10:9-10 (NLT) "For if you confess with
your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him
from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is by believing in your heart that
you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you
are saved."
It's that
simple! May God grant repentance and eternal life to all who are listening,
and for those who know Christ, may God give you a soberness of heart to ever
more reach out and touch others for Christ. Herein is the lesson of
Antarctica!
Now back to the
issue of the global-warming hypothesis. Scientifically it is no longer
tenable. Scientists have been able to test it carefully, and the truth is --
it does not hold up! During the past 50 years, as atmospheric carbon dioxide
levels have risen, scientists have made precise measurements of atmospheric
temperature. These measurements have definitively shown that major atmospheric
greenhouse warming of the atmosphere is not occurring and is unlikely ever to
occur. This friend is the truth you should believe and embrace, and stop
listening to the shrill and cry of environmentalists, whose god, mother-earth,
they claim is being destroyed. There is no scientific proof.
However, our
world is not free from the effects and consequences of sin. We can suffer
ravaging storms, blistering heat waves, dry seasons, wet seasons and a host of
other abnormal weather consequences, but all in all, man will survive until
God chooses to break into our world and eject unsaved sinners from His
Creation. I hope and pray you will not be one who is so removed.
